umdoc

umdoc is a Markdown to LaTeX to PDF converter. It is command line tool to convert a Markdown file or set of Markdown files into an input file (.tex file) for a LaTeX engine like xelatex, lualatex or pdflatex. The LaTeX engine is then launched to convert the generated file into a PDF document. Optional layout information written in LaTeX may be provided to customize the look of the generated document.

Examples & Documentation

Further documentation and a showcase of umdoc's capabilities can be found in its user manual.

Build Instructions

To compile umdoc from the sources follow the following steps:

Windows

• Ensure you have Visual Studio, Git and CMake installed.
• Install MiKTeX,
• Clone the Git repository.
• Initialize submodules.
• Use CMake to generate a solution file (umdoc.sln) for some version of Visual Studio.
• Open the generated umdoc.sln file in Visual Studio.
• Compile the umdoc project in Visual Studio.

Linux

• Ensure you have git, g++ and cmake installed. (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get git g++ cmake)
• Install xelatex with various fonts. (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-extra)
• Clone the Git repository. git clone [email protected]:craflin/umdoc.git
• Initialize submodules. git submodule update --init
• Use CMake to build umdoc.